Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'slew' occurs 226 times in the standard works.

69 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'slew' in the standard works and contain 30.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 30 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 23:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

 23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.




1 Chr. 11:20-23 (5 in 4 verses)

Num. 31:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 10:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 14:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 16:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:50 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 34:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 9:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 21:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 20:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 28:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 33:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 41:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 41:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 185 1 186
Gen. 7 0 7
Ex. 2 0 2
Lev. 6 0 6
Num. 3 0 3
Josh. 6 0 6
Judg. 23 0 23
1 Sam. 17 1 18
2 Sam. 21 0 21
1 Kgs. 14 0 14
2 Kgs. 25 0 25
1 Chr. 16 0 16
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 4 0 4
Ps. 5 0 5
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 10 0 10
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 4 0 4
Dan. 2 0 2
NT 11 0 11
BM 26 0 26
DC 0 0 0
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 226 1 227

2 Sam. 1:10
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

2 Sam. 3:30
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

2 Sam. 4:7
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

2 Sam. 4:10
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

2 Sam. 4:12
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

2 Sam. 8:5
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

2 Sam. 10:18
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

2 Sam. 14:6
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

2 Sam. 14:7
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

2 Sam. 18:15
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

2 Sam. 21:1
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

2 Sam. 21:18
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

2 Sam. 21:19
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2 Sam. 21:21
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

2 Sam. 23:8
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

2 Sam. 23:12
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.

2 Sam. 23:18
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.

2 Sam. 23:20
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

2 Sam. 23:21
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.